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Title Handbook on social stratification in the BRIC countries : change and perspective / editors, Li Peilin, M.K. Goshkov, Celi Scalon, K.L. Sharma
Published Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (821 pages)
Contents 1. Social stratification and its transformation in Brazil / C. Scalon -- 2. Changes in the social structure of Russian society within a period of transformation / Z.T. Golenkova and M.K. Gorshkov -- 3. Social stratification and change in contemporary India / K.L. Sharma -- 4. Changes in China's social stratification since 1978 / Li Peilin -- 5. Labor, workers, and politics in contemporary Brazil: 1980-2010 / M.A. Santana -- 6. The working class in a transitional society: from the Soviet Union to the Russian Republic / Z.T. Golenkova and E.D. Igitkhanian -- 7. The Urban industrial working class and the rural peasant working class in India / K.L. Sharma -- 8. The status quo and change to the working class in contemporary China / Li Wei and Tian Feng -- 9. The Brazilian peasantry: a history of resistance / M. de Nazareth Baudel Wanderley -- 10. The transformation of the social structure in modern rural Russia / A.A. Hagurov -- 11. The differentiation of the peasantry in India since independence / K.L. Sharma -- 12. Rural society and peasants in China / Fan Ping -- 13. Innovative entrepreneurship in Brazil / S.K. Guimarães -- 14. The development of entrepreneurship in Russia: main trends and the status quo / A. Chepurenko -- 15. Tradition and entrepreneurship of Indian private entrepreneurs / K.L. Sharma -- 16. China's fledgling private entrepreneurs in a transitional economy / Chen Guangjin -- 17. The formation of the middle class in Brazil: history and prospects / A. Salata and C. Scalon -- 18. The middle class in Russian society: homogeneity or heterogeneity? / N.E. Tichonova and S.V. Mareyeva
19. The rise of the middle class in India since independence / K.L. Sharma -- 20. The heterogeneous composition and multiple identities of China's middle class / Li Chunling -- 21. Income inequality and social stratification in Brazil: key determining factors and changes in the first decade of the 21st century / L.G. Costa and C. Scalon -- 22. Income inequality in Russia / Y. Epikhina -- 23. Poverty and income inequality in India's urban and rural areas / K.L. Sharma -- 24. Structural characteristics and trends of income inequality in China / Chen Guangjin -- 25. Educational inequality and social stratification in Brazil / M. da Costa, M.C. Koslinski and L.G. Costa -- 26. Inequality in education: the case of Russia / D.L. Konstantinovskiy -- 27. Education and social stratification in India: systematic inequality / K.L. Sharma -- 28. Educational inequality and educational expansion in China / Li Chunling -- 29. Beyond social stratification: a new angle on consumer practices in contemporary Brazil / M. Castañeda -- 30. Consumption and lifestyle in Russia / P.M. Kozyreva, A.E. Nizamova and A.I. Smirnov -- 31. The new emerging consumption class and their lifestyles / K.L. Sharma -- 32. The stratification of consumption among social classes, occupational groups, and identity groups in China / Tian Feng -- 33. Working class formation in Brazil: from unions to state power / A. Cardoso -- 34. The research of class and group consciousness in contemporary Russian society / M.F. Chernysh -- 35. Social-class connection and class identity in urban and rural areas / K.L. Sharma -- 36. Stratum consciousness and stratum identification in China / Li Wei
Summary Along with the fast growing economy, the term "BRICs" was coined to represent the newly emerging countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of social structure, norms and values. However, as the world's attention centers on their economic development at the micro level, the social changes at the micro level have often been neglected, and a specific comparative study of these four countries is even more rare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF information screen (Ebsco, viewed July 16, 2013)
Subject Social stratification -- BRIC countries
Social change -- BRIC countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Social change
Social conditions
Social stratification
SUBJECT BRIC countries -- Social conditions
Subject BRIC countries
Form Electronic book
Author Li, Peilin, 1955- editor.
Gorshkov, M. K. (Mikhail Konstantinovich), editor.
Scalon, Maria Celi, editor
ISBN 9789814390422
9814390429
Other Titles Social stratification in the BRIC countries